The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 14

‘I wish I knew how far off that is,’ says he; and he fell asleep, with his head in the dish.

Who acts: I, Tibb · What happens: wish, know, say, fall · To what, where: Tibb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Tibb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wish	nsubj
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 says	ccomp
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wish	ccomp
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 knew	advmod
8	off	off	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 knew	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 that	fixed
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 says	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fell	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fell	nsubj
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 says	conj
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fell	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 head	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 dish	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 dish	det
26	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 head	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know	past	I		off that; far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	present		Tibb		tree rules
4	fall	past	Tibb		with Tibb's head in the dish; asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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